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FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT

Our corporate office in Lighthouse Point is equipped with a dedicated fax line, computers with high-speed Internet connections, copy machines, scanner, high-speed color printers, multiple phone lines and Nextel Phone Back-up. Specialty tools are stored here and our management team, administrative staff, and additional support personnel, electricians and mechanics are based out of this office. Our specialized equipment includes a dedicated bucket truck and a work boat for the maintainance of fenders and navigational lighting systems.

Florida Drawbridge installed a mobile trailer under the N. W. 27th Avenue Bridge. This office is fully equipped with computers, e-mail, telephones, fax, and a copy machine for on-site administration and communication between State and Federal DOTs and our bridge personnel. Our bridge supervisors use this trailer for administrative duties and bridge tender pre-employment interviews. All of the bridge house logs and office supplies are kept at this location.

This location also provides a convenient location to base our service maintenance technicians as it is close to the bridges and local supply vendors. Maintenance inspection forms, reports, and reference material are stored here, as well as miscellaneous electrical supplies such as light bulbs, contact cleaner, spare limit switches, relays, nuts, bolts, lubricants, etc. It is staffed by electricians, mechanics, supervisors and management team.

TOOLS AND TEST EQUIPMENT

We provide all the tools and test equipment needed to fulfill the operation, maintenance and repair of the bridges we operate and / or maintain. The following is a list of the tools most commonly required. Additional tools are provided as needed.

  • Standard hand tools needed by all maintenance personnel
  • Digital volt-ohm meters
  • Clamp on ammeters
  • 500 / 1000 volt meggers
  • Low resistance ohm meters
  • Tachometers
  • Current sources to test overloads and breakers
  • Voltage testers
  • MEchanical diagnostic equipment
  • Feeler gauges
  • Dial indicators
  • Vibration measurement meter
  • Torque wrenches
  • Lubrication equipment
  • Ratchet sets
  • Impact wrenches and multipliers
  • Pressure cleaning equipment
  • Portable sandblasting equipment
  • Field machining equipment
  • Portable welding machine
  • Portable acetylene and oxygen heating and cutting equipment
  • Coupling and gear extractor equipment
  • Micrometers and gauges for checking dimensions, fits and alignments
  • Numerous service trucks and vehicles as needed
  • Hydraulic cylinder honing equipment
  • Work platforms
  • Pneumatic torque guns and sockets
  • Portable air compressors
  • Portable truck cranes

 

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